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-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gcore-buffer-overflow.exp19
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
index c9ffd0e..b7ecb21 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-09-09 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
+
+ * gdb.base/gcore-buffer-overflow.exp: Check whether gdb supports
+ gcore, before continuing with the test.
+
2007-09-06 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
* gdb.mi/mi2-watch.exp: Set can-use-hw-watchpoints to 0 if required.
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gcore-buffer-overflow.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gcore-buffer-overflow.exp
index 27905b5..27bed79 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gcore-buffer-overflow.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gcore-buffer-overflow.exp
@@ -45,6 +45,25 @@ gdb_start
gdb_reinitialize_dir $srcdir/$subdir
gdb_load ${binfile}
+# Does this gdb support gcore?
+send_gdb "help gcore\n"
+gdb_expect {
+ -re "Undefined command: .gcore.*$gdb_prompt $" {
+ # gcore command not supported -- nothing to test here.
+ unsupported "gdb does not support gcore on this target"
+ return -1;
+ }
+ -re "Save a core file .*$gdb_prompt $" {
+ pass "help gcore"
+ }
+ -re ".*$gdb_prompt $" {
+ fail "help gcore"
+ }
+ timeout {
+ fail "help gcore (timeout)"
+ }
+}
+
gdb_test "set args ${pattern}" \
"" \
"Set buffer exceeding arguments"